Chapter 12

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Early the next morning, 2 guards escorted her to a torture chamber blindfolded. When they arrived, they cuffed her wrist and made her dangle from the ceiling. "Hey! Don't leave me alone!" She called out to them when she heard the door closing. Dangling while blindfolded was very scary as you can't move freely and doesn't know what's happening around you.

"Relax." Seraphine's voice startled her. "We're now doing the Purification ritual. Don't wriggle too much. Just let the fear overcome you." Seraphine giggled. Hearing that, Lucy wriggled more. "What do you mean? Purification?" She strecthed out her toes, trying to find the floor. Seraphine ignored her question, "Now, once I press this button, spikes will slowly crush you, heat will increase around you, and you will undergo tickle torture at the same time. Ready? Go!" Seraphine pressed the button and the machines started moving. "What?! What are you talking about?! Help!" Lucy screamed, scared when she heard the machines. The ceiling suddenly dropped a feet, and Lucy's heart almost jumped out of her chest. Her feet were now submerged in water, and after a while, the ceiling rose back to its original height. Lucy was wriggling again when suddenly, amidst the machines, she heard a goat bleating and Seraphine giggling.

"Let the torture begin!" Seraphine exclaimed. At the same time, Lucy immediately felt pricks all over her body. Her head felt heavy and the room was getting hot. The goat bleated again, this time nearer to her. "Stay away, goat!" Lucy yelled, scared. The pricks were getting hotter, and it felt like Lucy was getting stabbed by thousands of hot tattoo needles while having a big boulder placed on her head.

The goat licked her feet and despite the pricks, she bursted into a painful laughter.

Soon, her feet was torn and bled. Her sides were almost crushed by the hot spikes. Seraphine leaned against a wall, bored. "Come on now. Do I need to add more torture?" Seraphine yawned, flicking her finger, making Lucy's sense of pain increase tenfolds. "AAAAGGHH!" Lucy screamed. Suddenly the horologium appeared and contained her in him. "'You're late' she says. I know. Sorry." Horologium jumped away from all the torture stuff.

"Ahahahah! This is your magic?!" Seraphine laughed and took out a totally black key. She touched Horologium with it. "'Don't touch him!' She says. Ouch." Lucy was suddenly on the floor again, naked. Horologium was already sucked into the black key. "What did you do to Horologium?!" Lucy sprang at her, anger fueling her energy. Seraphine dodged her. "Produce more spirits!" Seraphine commanded her with a laugh, making a gesture as if pulling the key away from Lucy.

PUFF.

Aries came out. "Huh? Huh? What?" Aries looked around, unable to comprehend what just happened. Lucy stared at her wide-eyed. "Aries, gate closed!" Lucy exclaimed, grabbing Aries' hand. "No can do!" Seraphine touched Aries' back with the key and Aries was immediately absorbed into the key. "No! Give her back!" Lucy tried to grab for the key but failed. "Come on now. I need more spirits!"

SSS...

Scorpio fell. "What? Where am I?" He looked around the room and his eyes landed on Seraphine. "Hit her!" Lucy cried. "Sand Buster!" Scorpio attacked Seraphine but the attack was absorbed by the key, leaving no trace of magic. "That extra magic was nice. Now it's your turn!" She exclaimed, dashing forward and touching Scorpio's tail with the key.

Even without Seraphine calling them out, spirits kept pouring out one by one, all of them puzzled by their sudden change in environment, and all of them sucked into the black key, even the spirit king, until none was left. Lucy couldn't do anything, and cried. "Why are you doing this?!" She cried. Seraphine laughed. "To create a whole new world! With this magic and Zeref's spells, we will kill everyone in this world, and make kingdoms for ourselves! Kyahaha! With Yuko at my side, I will have a kingdom full of cute, zombie animals from the souls of you guys! Isn't this fun!" She squealed.

Lucy could hardly believe her ears. Kill everyone in the world? Kingdoms of zombies? Zeref?!

Suddenly Seraphine dodged to the left, her katana unsheathed and holding off a boomerang.

"You speak too much, Sera. I don't know why you would spend your time with filthy, lowly humans like her and your toys. I just wanna kill them all!" A figure came out from the shadows, a man dressed in an open purple coat with purple pants and shoes. His eyes were black with glowing purple pupils. Seraphine's eyes were murderous. "Don't you dare touch them, Iblis. They're mine." She said in a dangerous low voice. The man, Iblis, held up his hands in a surrender pose. "Hey, I'm just saying what I want. I didn't say I'll do it for sure. But maybe after this project is done, I might just do that." He said, smirking evilly as he walked back to the shadows. The boomerang which was stuck to Seraphine's katana started quivering, and after it detached itself from the katana, it flew back to the shadows following the man.

"Oh and don't forget our date tonight!" The man called out, making Seraphine blushed.

"Oh my gosh, you did not just see that!" Seraphine fell down, her face flushed. She squealed. "I really don't know what to do with him! He's so romantic but also annoying as hell! Oh my gosh, I'm so nervous for tonight's date!" She gushed. "Ah! You're naked! Go back to your room, shoo!" Seraphine shooed Lucy out of the dungeon and literally locked her out.

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Lucy wandered the huge place herself, naked and crying. She stopped near a metal door, exhausted. Everytime she took a step, it felt like she was walking on a field full of sharp swords. It sent pain all through her body like a lightning bolt. She opened the door, hoping it to be her 'room'. She was greeted by a room with pink, flowery wallpaper. "Huh?" Lucy muttered in surprised as she opened the door wider. There were racks stuck to the wall. The racks were filled with beaten up stuffed toy. On every toy, the skin was patches of different colored cotton fabric. They were dirty, and some of them only had 1 eye.

They looked creepy. While tracing her hands over the wall, she accidentally pushed a switch, making a wall flipped over, revealing 3 people, dressed in blood soaked coats.

"Wha-?!"

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Natsu sat on a chair, leaning forward with his head in his hands. "She's gonna be alright." Gray sat beside him. "It's not that." Natsu said. He scanned the busy room. "I felt some strange magic since yesterday. I can't just locate it."

Gray was taken aback, "What?! Are you serious?"

"Yeah. I feel like it's in the guild somehow but the magic power is very faint. It's hard to put my finger on it. And the magic felt familiar too."

Gray stood up and scanned the room. Suddenly he felt his heart thumping louder than usual. He began to sweat a lot. "I felt it too. The familiar magic."

After a second, they looked at each other, surprised, "Zeref...."

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